Ben Allen (Oomph Wellness Limited) - Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012

Business Description

The Oomph offers falls reduction exercise therapy sessions, dance therapy sessions and art therapy sessions. These sessions are designed for residents living within the care sector. These residents are often under-stimulated and in need of social interaction and creative expression.

Ben Allen of Oomph Wellness Limited.

Oomph Wellness Limited encourages as many people to take part as possible. The business believes each session should provide an hour to an hour and a half of joy in what can be quite a silent life.

Elevator Pitch Video

You can watch Ben's elevator pitch video again in the video player in the top right-hand corner of this page.

Inspirational Quotes

The Awards are absolutely fantastic and the team running them are doing an exceptional job to ensure that early stage companies can get recognition, a confidence boost and a small amount of financial support at the most critical time of a business's development. I hope the Awards continue to help companies like us in the early stages and continue to fund high risk ventures that are unlikely to attract traditional forms of investment at an early stage.

Business in the low-carbon and sustainability sectors in particular face unique challenges and need funding partners that take this into account. That’s why this year, we launched the Access to Finance Navigator – an interactive, digital database to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) identify funding opportunities in the low-carbon, cleantech and sustainability sectors.